Let's Play a Game

The Caravan Game
We call this the Caravan Game because we played it while staying in a caravan waiting for the eclipse in 1999.

Each person has a piece of paper and a pencil or pen.

Everybody writes a caption at the top of the paper. (Something like "Everybody was longing for the next episode of Downton Abbey" or "Dr Who greeted the alien slime moulds with a witty quip".)

Pass your paper to the person on your left.

Illustrate the caption.

Turn down paper over the caption (forwards).

Pass your paper to the left.

Write a caption to the drawing you see.

Turn down the paper over the drawing.

Pass your paper to the left....

Until you get to the end of the paper.

In turn, read out the captions. Pass the papers round.


Costume Consequences

Everybody has pen/pencil and paper.

Turning down and passing on between each item, write:

An adjective for a girl.
A girl's name (someone you all know, or a celebrity)
A disguise (what she want to the fancy dress ball dressed as)
An adjective for an item of clothing.
An item of clothing.
An adjective for an item of clothing.
An item of clothing.
An adjective for a man.
A man's name.
A disguise.
An adjective for an item of clothing.
An item of clothing.
An adjective for an item of clothing.
An item of clothing.
What they were mistaken for.

Pass on one more time, unroll the paper, and draw them (they aren't allowed any other clothes). In turn, read out the results, and pass them round. Here's how it should sound:

Affected
Miley Cyrus
Went to a fancy dress ball as a dalek
Wearing acardboard
bikini
and a
tinfoil
bracelet
She danced with
flakey
Jude Law
who went as a
faceless bureaucrat
in a
carved
crinoline
and afake fur
glitter ball
They were mistaken for
Jedward